Asian American athletes in sport and society

For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress...

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Other Authors: King, C. Richard 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2015.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society 39
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505 0 |a Sport, racism, and the media / Richard King -- Beyond black and white: Chinese American women's experience in sports / Yomee Lee -- A haunt in the hunt: the Oriental specter in the Wisconsin deer stand incident / Rory J. Ong -- "Liting It Up": Indo-Pak basketball and finding the American-ness in South Asian American institutions / Stanley Thangaraj -- Cheering for our team: coverage of women's basketball in a Japanese-American community newspaper / Nicole Willms -- Sex, sports, and spectatorship: the transnational erotics of Korean athletes / Rachael M. Joo -- American memory and Chi Cheng / CL Cole -- The spring of 1989: Michael Chang, Roland Garros, and Tiananmen Square / Nancy Spencer -- Chow can coach: against model minorities within college sports / David J. Leonard -- Yo! Yao!: the "Ming Dynasty" and the construction of an Asian American identity / Anna Chow -- Living with Linsanity: a retro-diary of the Jeremy Lin phenomenon / Oliver Wang. 
520 |a For more than a century, sporting spectacles, media coverage, and popular audiences have staged athletics in black and white. Commercial, media, and academic accounts have routinely erased, excluded, ignored, and otherwise made absent the Asian American presence in sport. This book seeks to redress this pattern of neglect, presenting a comprehensive perspective on the history and significance of Asian American athletes, coaches, and teams in North America. The contributors interrogate the sociocultural contexts in which Asian Americans lived and played 
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650 0 |a Group identity  |z United States. 
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